# Quote — Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

> You’ve got a face longer than a Dickens novel.

- Author: [Jasper Fforde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde.md)
- Book: [The Eyre Affair](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/the-eyre-affair.md)
- Page: 371
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde#The_Eyre_Affair_(2001)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/the-eyre-affair/youve-got-a-face

## More from this book

> Don’t ever call me mad, Mycroft. I’m not mad. I’m just...well, differently moraled, that’s all.

p. 157 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/the-eyre-affair/dont-ever-call.md)

> “It was a coincidence.”
>
> “I don’t believe in coincidences.”
>
> “Neither do I. That’s a coincidence, isn’t it?”

p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/the-eyre-affair/it-was-a-coincidence.md)

> Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting and political agendas, arrogance and sheer bloody-mindedness almost guarantees that the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing.

p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/the-eyre-affair/like-any-other.md)